Of Labor Day, Road Trips and Beaches

Labor Day's really a day at the beach. If you're calling into class sick well and hitting the US road this weekend, take a note from the doctor's prescription pad and put one of the best US beaches of 2008 on your road trip map: Dr. Stephen Leatherman (aka Dr. Beach), beach expert, reknowned author and professor of environmental studies at Florida International University (FIU) as well as director of FIU's Laboratory for Coastal Research, rewards the country's most sugary shores with a coveted spot on his annual top ten list -- see which US beaches are tops in 2008 for mixing up the medicine on your Labor Day road trip:

• Dr Beach's Best US Beaches 2008
• American Road Trips 101

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